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- H02—GENERATION; CONVERSION OR DISTRIBUTION OF ELECTRIC POWER
- H02M—APPARATUS FOR CONVERSION BETWEEN AC AND AC, BETWEEN AC AND DC, OR BETWEEN DC AND DC, AND FOR USE WITH MAINS OR SIMILAR POWER SUPPLY SYSTEMS; CONVERSION OF DC OR AC INPUT POWER INTO SURGE OUTPUT POWER; CONTROL OR REGULATION THEREOF
- H02M3/00—Conversion of dc power input into dc power output
- H02M3/02—Conversion of dc power input into dc power output without intermediate conversion into ac
- H02M3/04—Conversion of dc power input into dc power output without intermediate conversion into ac by static converters
- H02M3/06—Conversion of dc power input into dc power output without intermediate conversion into ac by static converters using resistors or capacitors, e.g. potential divider
- H02M3/07—Conversion of dc power input into dc power output without intermediate conversion into ac by static converters using resistors or capacitors, e.g. potential divider using capacitors charged and discharged alternately by semiconductor devices with control electrode, e.g. charge pumps
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- H02—GENERATION; CONVERSION OR DISTRIBUTION OF ELECTRIC POWER
- H02M—APPARATUS FOR CONVERSION BETWEEN AC AND AC, BETWEEN AC AND DC, OR BETWEEN DC AND DC, AND FOR USE WITH MAINS OR SIMILAR POWER SUPPLY SYSTEMS; CONVERSION OF DC OR AC INPUT POWER INTO SURGE OUTPUT POWER; CONTROL OR REGULATION THEREOF
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- H02M7/42—Conversion of dc power input into ac power output without possibility of reversal
- H02M7/44—Conversion of dc power input into ac power output without possibility of reversal by static converters
- H02M7/48—Conversion of dc power input into ac power output without possibility of reversal by static converters using discharge tubes with control electrode or semiconductor devices with control electrode
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- H02—GENERATION; CONVERSION OR DISTRIBUTION OF ELECTRIC POWER
- H02M—APPARATUS FOR CONVERSION BETWEEN AC AND AC, BETWEEN AC AND DC, OR BETWEEN DC AND DC, AND FOR USE WITH MAINS OR SIMILAR POWER SUPPLY SYSTEMS; CONVERSION OF DC OR AC INPUT POWER INTO SURGE OUTPUT POWER; CONTROL OR REGULATION THEREOF
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- H02M7/42—Conversion of dc power input into ac power output without possibility of reversal
- H02M7/44—Conversion of dc power input into ac power output without possibility of reversal by static converters
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- the present invention relates to electronic circuits for converting electrical energy of the type described in French patent application FR 2 679 715 A1, and to a power supply installation making use thereof.
- the converter described in that patent application is shown, by way of example, in accompanying FIG. 1. It essentially comprises, between a voltage source SE and a current source C, a succession of controllable switching cells CL1, CL2, . . . , CLn, each having two switches T1, T'1; T2, T'2; . . .
- the converter also comprising a respective capacitor C1, C2, . . .
- the converter further having control means (not shown) governing the nominal operation of the converter and acting on the switches of the successive cells in such a manner that the two switches of any one cell are always in respective opposite conduction states (represented by control links such as lc1), such that in response to a cell control signal delivered by said control means, one of the two switches in a given cell is successively in a first conduction state and then in a second conduction state during a cyclically repeated converter period, and such that in response to cell control signals that are identical but offset in time by a fraction of said converter period, the switches of successive cells function respectively in the same manner but offset in time by said fraction of a period.
- control links such as lc1
- said fraction of a period is equal to the reciprocal of the number n of cells, i.e. 2 ⁇ /n, which is optimal with respect to harmonics generated on the output and which enables the voltages charged on the capacitors of the converter to be balanced naturally.
- n is not less than two, and in particular when n is greater than three.
- multilevel converter is used below to designate a converter that satisfies the above description.
- the object of the present invention is to make provision in such a multilevel converter for the charge on each capacitor to remain in compliance with the above description, in spite of inevitable departures from nominal operating conditions.
- FIG. 2 shows an arbitrary switching cell CLk together with its switches Tk and T'k, the capacitor Ck associated with the cell, and also the following cell CLk+1 and its switches Tk+1, T'k+1.
- the currents corresponding to these two states are forced by the current source. If the current source forces an exactly accurate DC, and everything else remains equal, then the currents forced by the current source during stages c) and d) are the same and in opposite directions at all times throughout the conduction periods of Tk and Tk+1 (which are nominally equal and offset in time, as mentioned above). This means that the charge on Ck is changed positively and then negatively by equal amounts, so it does not vary over one period of the converter.
- the currents Ick and I'ck are determined by the current source.
- the current through the current source depends on the voltage across its terminals and thus on the voltages Vck on the capacitors. For example, if it should happen that the charge voltage Vck is too high compared with its nominal value VE.k/n, for whatever reason, then there will result a discharging current I'ck tending to be greater and a charging current Ick tending to be smaller than they ought to be nominally, thereby tending to return the charge on the capacitor Ck to the value it ought to have.
- This explains that the operation of the multilevel converter is stable and can accommodate variations in amplitude, in either direction, both at the voltage source and at the current source. It is explained below that this nevertheless gives rise to problems in dynamic terms.
- PWM pulse width modulation
- the converter may also serve to deliver the current source C with any other waveform or with a regulated DC voltage.
- FIG. 3 also shows, by way of example, how the multilevel converter operates during periods p2, p3, etc. . . . , during which the conduction periods of the switches become shorter, and then become longer until they exceed one-third of a period, in which case they overlap.
- Line VI shows the voltage that would ideally be transmitted to the current source, in particular if the capacitance of the capacitors was such that the additional charge in question did not significantly alter the voltage across their terminals.
- the voltage VI is expressed in fractions of the voltage VE from the voltage source SE, taking the negative pole of the voltage source SE as the voltage reference.
- this voltage VI contains both a large fundamental at the frequency of the modulating wave, and also lower-amplitude harmonics at frequencies higher than the chopper frequency which are easily eliminated by a low-pass filter. Since the current is variable, integrating it by means of an arbitrary inductive element contained in the current source results in the converter supplying the current source with an AC of sinusoidal appearance having a period that is equal to the period of the fundamental of the output voltage.
- trace VI' in FIG. 3 which is similar to the trace VI with the exception that capacitor C1 (FIG. 1) which is assumed to be charged to a voltage that is smaller than its nominal charge voltage prevents the converter from delivering pulses vi1, vi2, vi3 of constant amplitude, with the converter supplying instead, pulses such as vi1' that are of smaller amplitude (the scale is exaggerated to make it more readable) whenever the capacitor C1 is delivering its own charge voltage to the current source C, and pulses such as vi2' of greater amplitude whenever the capacitor C1 is subtracting its own voltage from the voltage delivered to the current source C, and finally also pulses such vi3' of unchanged amplitude whenever the capacitor C1 is not in the circuit. It is thus easy to see that this introduces into the signal VI' a disturbing component at said chopper frequency of the converter.
- Such a disturbing component does not exist when the capacitors are charged to their respective nominal voltages. When such a component appears, it is generally harmful.
- the voltages to which the switches are subjected are no longer substantially equal to the differences between the nominal charge voltages of two adjacent capacitors, i.e. the voltage of the voltage source divided by the number of stages in the converter. This can put the switches in danger.
- the spontaneous process is implemented via the current source. It therefore cannot have effect when the current source is not forcing a current, and in any event it will be slowed down whenever the current flowing through the current source is small.
- the multilevel converter includes means for measuring any difference on each of said capacitors between the evaluated mean charge voltage and the nominal mean charge voltage of the capacitor, and additional control means changing the duration of said first conduction state of the cell associated with said capacitor in a direction such that the measured difference is reduced.
- each of the difference-measuring means includes means for receiving the value of the voltage of the voltage source, a modulation magnitude determining a voltage waveform to be applied to said current source, the rank of the stage and the number of stages, so as to determine what the nominal charge voltage of each capacitor consequently ought to be in an operating period of the converter, said difference then being measured on each capacitor of the converter by comparator means subtracting said mean voltage evaluated across the terminals of each capacitor from said nominal charge voltage of the capacitors.
- said means for evaluating the voltage across the terminals of each capacitor comprise a voltmeter network connected across the two terminals of the capacitor.
- said means for evaluating the voltage across the terminals of each capacitor comprise a voltmeter network connected across the two terminals of a switch in each cell.
- said means for evaluating the voltage across the terminals of each capacitor comprise a voltmeter network connected across the two terminals of the current source.
- each of said additional control means receives, in addition to said difference signal, a measurement of the current I forced by said current source and a constant expressing the capacitance of one of said capacitors that is associated with it, and computes accordingly a change in the duration of said first conduction state of the cell associated with the capacitor, which change is such that it generates charge in the capacitor compensating for said charge difference.
- each of said additional control means also receives a modulation signal, and changes accordingly the duration of said first conduction state of the cell associated with the capacitor, so that, with all of said additional control means acting likewise, said current source receives a mean voltage modulated according to said modulation signal.
- FIG. 1, described above, is the circuit diagram of a known multilevel converter
- FIG. 2 is the circuit diagram of a set of two adjacent stages of the multilevel converter of FIG. 1;
- FIG. 3 is a waveform diagram showing operation of the multilevel converter of FIGS. 1 and 2, for the case where it comprises three stages;
- FIG. 4 is the circuit diagram of control means for a multilevel converter of the type shown in FIGS. 1, 2, and 3 and organized to enable the invention to be implemented;
- FIG. 6 is the circuit diagram of means for evaluating capacitor charge voltage and usable in the circuit of FIG. 4;
- FIGS. 1, 2, and 3 correspond to a converter of the type described in patent document FR 2 697 715 A1, to which the reader can refer for more ample details.
- each of these capacitors is associated with a respective evaluation circuit VMO1, VMO2, . . . , VMOn enabling the voltage across the terminals of each of the capacitors to be evaluated.
- each such circuit is coupled to the two terminals of a respective capacitor, and provides an evaluation signal VO1, VO2, . . . , VOn representative of the voltage that exists across the terminals of the capacitor.
- MCCn also changes the length of the pulse as a function of the value of the difference signal VEC1, VEC2, . . . , VECn, and of the current I forced by the current source.
- Each of said additional means in the control modules MCC1, MCC2, . . . , MCCn finally preferably changes the length of the pulse as a function of the change made to its own control pulse by an adjacent control module and indicated to it by a change signal SM1, SM2, . . . , SMn produced by each control module MCC1, MCC2, . . . , MCCn.
- SM1, SM2, . . . , SMn produced by each control module MCC1, MCC2, . . . , MCCn.
- the signal SM1 is produced by the control module MCC2
- the signal SM2 is produced by a module MCC3 (not shown).
- Signal SMn is mentioned for reasons of uniformity for control module MCCn, but it does not exist insofar as there is no control module MCCn+1.
- the resulting signals CT1, CT2, . . . , CTn control the states of the switches in the corresponding switching cells CL1, CL2, . . . , CLn.
- the difference signal lengthens (or shortens) the "1" states of the corresponding switch T1, T2, . . . , Tn (see FIG. 1).
- Such lengthening depends on the charge difference to be corrected, but also on the current through the current source I, as measured by a conventional-type current sensor inserted in series with the current source, and on the capacitance of the capacitor, which is a constant hard-wired in the control module.
- step-by-step corrections are reversed if the influence of charge variations that one capacitor has on the other occurs in the other direction.
- a change applied to the length of the nominal pulse Tk is shown by the pulse being lengthened by a first correction interval itk1, and then by a second correction interval itk2.
- the charge differences in question may be corrected in a centralized control circuit performing the functions of all of the control modules MCC1, MCC2, . . . , MCCn, or in a circuit containing all of the control modules MCC1, MCC2, . . . , MCCn, together with interconnections and inter-module co-ordination means, and thus capable of computing the initial correction(s) to be made to the operation of one or more stages of the converter, as well as the corresponding subsequent corrections.
- such a circuit maintains the operating mark-space ratio of the first stage of switches, for example, and corrects any difference observed by changing the mark-space ratios of the other stages, as explained above. It is equally conceivable to maintain the operating mark-space ratio of the last stage.
- the above-described circuit thus makes it possible to modulate the conduction durations of the switches Tk so that, at all times, the mean voltage of each capacitor Ck is as close as possible to its nominal charge voltage.
- the mean voltage of the capacitor is therefore evaluated in a manner consistent with the above, in an observation circuit VMO1, VMO2, . . . , VMOn, i.e. VMOk in general terms.
- FIG. 7 shows one of the switches Tk of the FIG. 1 multilevel converter, to which switch a voltage evaluation circuit VIk is coupled.
- the voltage evaluation circuit may be as shown in FIG.
- the computation circuit receives the voltage VE directly, which voltage may also be obtained by a circuit such as the FIG. 6 circuit, appropriately simplified, and it effects the subtraction that supplies the signals VO1, VO2, . . . , VOn of FIG. 4.
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